Chile's Coup to Saigon's Fall: The 1970s That Led to SALT II

By 1949, America’s nuclear monopoly shattered when the Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb—fueled by a deadly network of Western spies. As the Cold War intensified, proxy conflict erupted in Korea, drawing UN, Chinese, and covert Soviet forces into a brutal struggle. Back home, paranoia fueled McCarthyism, while scientists unleashed the Hydrogen Bomb, locking the world in an era of Mutually Assured Destruction. From secret spy trials to the shootdown of a U2 reconnaissance aircraft, explore how close humanity came to total annihilation. 💚 Join the Absolute History club to get access to exclusive member benefits! 📺 You can now become a History Hit member right here on the original video platform! Join for access to a new exclusive documentary every week, and access to over 160+ of our documentaries presented by world renowned historians like Dan Snow, Eleanor Janega, Tristan Hughes, Mary Beard, Matt Lewis and more. This channel is part of the History Hit Network. Any queries please contact: owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com

1789 shattered old certainties and ignited Romantic art. This episode traces how revolution, the sublime, and the individual reshaped painting across Europe. From the fall of the Bastille, Western artists challenged neoclassical rules and elevated private feeling, nature, and the heroic or tragic individual. We unpack Edmund Burke's pairing of beauty and the sublime and Jean-Jacques Rousseau's call for the dignity of the individual that fueled this turn. In France, Jacques-Louis David bridges neoclassicism and romantic impulse, from the Oath of the Horatii to Napoleon at the St Bernard Pass, while his pupil Antoine-Jean Gros intensifies emotion. Théodore Géricault transforms a recent disaster into monumental history in The Raft of the Medusa, rebuilding the raft from a survivor's model and seizing the moment a rescue ship is sighted but sails on; later he explores extreme states in portraits from an asylum. Eugène Delacroix advances the movement with Dante and Virgil, The Massacre at Chios, The Death of Sardanapalus, and the emblematic Liberty Leading the People, where a red-capped, tricolor-bearing Liberty strides with citizens of every class over the July barricades.

August 4, 1892. A quiet Fall River home. Two brutal murders that still divide history. Step inside 92 Second Street as historians retrace the morning Abby and Andrew Borden were killed, why the house’s locked doors and a bowl of leftover mutton stew matter, and how a reported giggle on the staircase became legend. We examine the infamous 90 minute gap between killings, the handless hatchet, pears in the barn, and theories that range from Lizzie’s motive to the shadowy roles of John Morse and the rumored William Borden. Then follow the case into courtrooms, onto the AP wire, and through a century of pop culture shaping a woman the world thinks it knows. From forensic artifacts at the Fall River Historical Society to Maplecroft and the myths that refuse to die, this is a meticulous look at what we can prove — and what still haunts the story. Watch to discover the clues you may have missed and decide what you believe happened in that house. Watch now and step into America’s most debated unsolved case.

Journey across Britain with leading archaeologists as they unearth ground-breaking discoveries that rewrite human history. In this documentary episode, we travel from Norwich Castle Museum into the heart of the Cambridgeshire Fens to explore Must Farm - Britain’s "Bronze Age Pompeii" - revealing industrial-scale fishing, pristine log boats, and combat-scarred weaponry. 💚 Join the Absolute History club to get access to exclusive member benefits! 📺 You can now become a History Hit member right here on the original video platform! Join for access to a new exclusive documentary every week, and access to over 160+ of our documentaries presented by world renowned historians like Dan Snow, Eleanor Janega, Tristan Hughes, Mary Beard, Matt Lewis and more.

Christmas travel turns chaotic in this episode of Motorway Cops. A multi-vehicle crash closes the M6 on Christmas Eve, leaving officers to help an injured driver and investigate a car that vanished from the scene. On the M5, two fallen bicycles create a hazard, while a broken-down bus leaves a group of schoolchildren stranded on a busy road. As snow and ice make conditions worse, officers respond to a 93-year-old driving the wrong way along the motorway and track a stolen BMW through Birmingham. With lives at risk and traffic building, the motorway cops must make quick decisions to keep everyone safe.

Who were the first Europeans, and what did they actually look like? In this feature-length documentary, cutting-edge genetic science and archaeology combine to rewrite thousands of years of human history. By extracting ancient DNA from skull bones buried deep within ancient tombs and ring forts, researchers are peeling back the millennia to uncover the truth about our ancestors—from dark-skinned, blue-eyed hunter-gatherers to the Neolithic farmers who erected Europe’s most magnificent megaliths. Plus, journey into the early Middle Ages to uncover shocking "deviant burials," pagan rituals that survived the arrival of Christianity, and the chilling ancient fear of the living dead. 💚 Join the Absolute History club to get access to exclusive member benefits! 📺 You can now become a History Hit member right here on the original video platform! Join for access to a new exclusive documentary every week, and access to over 160+ of our documentaries presented by world renowned historians like Dan Snow, Eleanor Janega, Tristan Hughes, Mary Beard, Matt Lewis and more.